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Monday, June 23, 2008 8:06 AM

Social networking as a journalist

Hey everyone. Now, I'm going to guess here, but I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this blog is on at least one social networking site.I'm not exacty average, but I'm on plenty. Those include: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Twitter, ColourLovers, LastFm,
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:32 PM

Are citizen journalists serving a "watchblog" function?

Surely many of you have heard of Mayhill Fowler's exploits, but if you haven't, check out Howard Kurtz's wrapup of the whole affair:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060900373.htmlNow that you're back, I was wondering
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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:56 PM

Just making democratic conversation...

Like everyone who has been following the election season, I wanted to know where in the world Obama and Clinton were. So I was watching CNN, and Candy Crowley was parked in front of Clinton's Washington home, assuming it was the meeting place. Of course,
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:07 AM

Angry phone calls

Journalists get lots of calls from the public. What do you do about angry calls? Do you let readers vent their frustrations on you? Do you try to solve their problems?
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:06 AM

Revisiting Excel

Excel is an excellent tool for journalists. Here's how I've started using it to catalogue sources and keep a log of sources used for particular stories.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 5:37 PM

One big adventure

A while ago I blogged about changing careers, and how difficult it is to do even when one has only been in a job for a year or two. Well, I can attest to change being possible, and though it is difficult to do, we are able. And I think our youth gives
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Friday, September 28, 2007 7:35 PM

"Side by side we for freedom will fight"

Are you in a union?When I started work here a couple years ago, I was invited to join the media union. I was all for it, being a fan of Utah Phillips music, and was surprised at the number of people who advised against joining.I didn't see anything wrong
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:55 AM

Two parter

Rex Smith, editor of the Times Union, wrote a column about speaking at a journalism school in New York - and he shared his two of advice for young journalists which I thought was worth sharing:First, we can teach them that somewhere in the morass of spin
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:00 AM

Got an idea?, get some money

I saw this contest announced on the International Journalists Network Web site:Young journalists across the globe can enter the contest for the “Young Creators Award,” a digital journalism grant for people younger than 25.  Last day to apply: Oct
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:29 PM

Freebies

With Murdoch working to make the Wall St. free online, and with this discussion I found about free online newspapers, I wondered what the next gen journos think on the topic.Sure the pundits, publishers and higher-ups have all had their say - but we're
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Monday, September 10, 2007 2:33 PM

Campaign finance

Who out there crunches campagin numbers? I do.My beat is covering Irvine, Calif., where the campagining is bitter and never stops. And my idea is to get ahead on covering the city's 2008 elections by starting a campaign finance database now.I'm looking
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Friday, August 31, 2007 7:30 PM

We have a destination! Sort of...

In my last post I asked people to share their opinions on the state of the industry and the direction journalism is headed. Here's what I learned:     From what everyone said it seems the future will be in video/Web news. The journalists
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Friday, August 17, 2007 8:36 PM

Where do we go from here?

This is a tough time to be entering journalism. The changing industry means more opportunities to spearhead new projects and ideas, but it's also tough because we're faced with an often stagnant idea of what journalism really means. The definition of
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:56 PM

Do-it-yourself mentality

Sonya's last post was inspiring - I checked my high school paper and proudly discovered that a .pdf version of each issue from the past year is easily accessible online from the high school's Web site. Now the question is whether the staffers or the campus's
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:47 PM

Young journalists should begin, not rebel against the newspaper revolution

I just can't take it anymore.It seems like most of the young journalists I meet (some still in school, others just graduated) are rebelling against rather than leading the revolution to make news media successfull in the future.Why?!?!?!This article on
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